Kittiwakes

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The last couple of days have been spent watching kittiwakes collecting nesting materials from the foreshore here in Staithes. At one point the kittiwakes were even taking material from a herring gull’s nest, while the herring gull put up a fight the kittiwakes continued to pinch it’s nest. A quick count of nests on the end of Cowbar Nab show that the colony has nearly doubled from last year… 114 nests so far this year.